medicare, he wants a quart of a billion over ten years, easy. let's negotiate prescription drug prices like every other advanced industrial nation in the world does. that saves a quarter of a billion dollars a year for med care. medicaid is a key part of obama i don't know and what mr. plouffe was talking about. i think he got the republican talking points mixed up with his. >> you know what? that was my first impression when i saw the videotape, as well. the question comes up, what are you willing to accept in a deal when it comes to programs like medicare and medicaid? >> look, this december should be about revenues. then we can go on to have discussions about the long-term sol sency of medicare and where medicaid fits into obama care and all the changes coming by 2014. but revenue's got to come first and should come first because we hold all the aces. we've got five in our hand because if we do nothing, all the tax cuts expire and then republicans don't have to worry about their pledge to grover norquist because what they're doing is voting t